“(Mallory) had a nice match,” Ward said. “Unfortunately, today we have a nice match with Mall and a bad match with (junior outside hitter Jen Dixon). Tomorrow we have a great match with Jen but a bad match with Mall.

“You see that they’re all really capable of being successful. We’re very capable as we go up and down our roster, but it just has to be consistent.”

In the opening set, the Huskies (12-5, 6-3) seized a 15-12 advantage after Ward received a red card – which results in a one-point penalty – for bickering with an official. MSU fought back to tie the score at 15, but SCSU won five of the next six rallies for a four-point buffer and three of the final four points to close out the set.

The Huskies’ final three points of the first frame came on MSU attack errors.

“It was a lot of our mistakes,” Sall said. “We came out and we could’ve executed and we just didn’t on some points.”

Erratic hitting continued to plague the Beavers in the second set. Sall’s teammates recorded five kills and seven attack errors.